Is there a reason why an old riscv toolchain is recommended in the README.md?

[ratzupaltuff]

Hi,
in the Readme in the RiscV toolchain section

linux-on-litex-vexriscv/README.md

Line 122 in 3d99c8e

$ wget https://static.dev.sifive.com/dev-tools/riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc-8.1.0-2019.01.0-x86_64-linux-ubuntu14.tar.gz

an old Toolchain release with gcc 8.1.0 is recommended. There are some issues that used that version and it didn't work:
#333
#308

I have the same problem too now and I was wondering if there is a reason to recommend this old version?
Is there any reason not to recommend a newer version that is known to work? Maybe one could add a note that "there may be newer versions available, please check yourself if you encounter problems" in the readme, when updating the link is not feasable.

Thank you for your feedback!

[Dolu1990]

Mostly it was never updated. The only thing that that version has for it, is that its gdb support the custom debug with float point combination. Else, there should be no issue using the last versions of GCC.

It seems that https://xpack.github.io/dev-tools/riscv-none-elf-gcc/install/ should be good.

Could you give a try ?

[ratzupaltuff]

Thank you for your feedback! If I have problems again, I will try it. For now I will use the riscv64-elf-ubuntu-22.04-gcc-nightly-2023.11.22-nightly.tar.gz toolchain from https://github.com/riscv-collab/riscv-gnu-toolchain/releases/tag/2023.11.22 which is working as expected :)